Dr. Ivan Savin
Bio
Ivan is a postdoctoral research fellow within the ERC project “Behavioral-evolutionary analysis of climate policy: Bounded rationality, markets and social interactions” (EVOCLIM) at ICTA-UAB. Before that, he served within the KIT-BETA project devoted to general purpose technologies, creativity and sustainability (2015-2018) and was a postdoc for four years at the Friedrich Schiller University in the Graduate College "The Economics of Innovative Change" (2011-2015).
He received his PhD from the Department of Economics of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen (Chair of Econometrics, supervisor Prof. Dr. Peter Winker) in 2011. In 2017 he habilitated at KIT with the thesis titled "Applications of Evolutionary Optimization and Modelling in Economics"
Given all that, his research interest naturally include economics of innovation, environmental economics, climate policy, complex systems and evolutionary economics.

Education
2017
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Habilitation, Teaching Degree in Economics
2008 - 2011
Justus Liebig University of Giessen
PhD at the chair of statistics and econometrics, Summa Cum Laude.
2006 - 2007
University of Passau
1 year DAAD ERP program
2003 - 2008
Ural Federal University (former Ural State University named after A.M. Gorky)
Faculty of Economics, Specialization in International Economics. Honors degree based on five-year full-time Diploma
Research Interests
Economics of Innovation
R&D cooperation, renewable energy generation technologies, open innovation concept, innovation policy
Complex Systems
agent-based modelling, social networks, technology networks
Climate Policy
Carbon tax vs carbon market, acceptance of climate policies, public opinion dynamics
Machine Learning
topic modelling, computational linguistics
Evolutionary Economics
Replicator dynamics, optimal strategies in dynamic econometric models and games, evolutionary optimization